upper- and down-part of photo not printing?

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Hari Seldon

Greetings,

My HP Photosmart D7160 works fine, but it doesn't print the upper and
down-part that appaer on the screen. The prints are fine, but some parts of
the picture are not printed, about 0,5 cm. up and 0,3 down.

I put in the right paper, gave up the exact size of the photo-paper... Tried
Photosmart printing software and Adobe software, it all fails.

I hate it when the printer crops for me.

Any ideas?
 
Greetings,

My HP Photosmart D7160 works fine, but it doesn't print the upper and
down-part that appaer on the screen. The prints are fine, but some parts of
the picture are not printed, about 0,5 cm. up and 0,3 down.

I put in the right paper, gave up the exact size of the photo-paper... Tried
Photosmart printing software and Adobe software, it all fails.

I hate it when the printer crops for me.

Any ideas?
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Sounds like the image size is too big for the paper. Most ink jets
have borders, 1/2 inch or so on top 3/4 of an inch or so on the bottom
and maybe 1/3 of an inch on the sides. If you check borderless
printing then the driver increases the size of the image to print
beyond the paper edges to be sure it will cover all the paper. To fit
your image completely on your paper check "print to size" or "scale to
fit" in the printer properties in the driver.

Tom
 
Ato_Zee said:
Maybe an aspect ratio issue.
If the image is 4:3, and the paper 6:3 photo paper,
you will get an uneven border. Made uneven by
the printers margin, unless it is a marginless printer,
when the borders (whitespace) should be even.
I have to trim A4 into 4 pieces of the correct
4:3 aspect ratio, with a small amount of wasteage.
Or get the printed by a commercial service which
offers print sizes of the 4:3 ratio.
Many digital cameras are 4:3 so prints don't
fit standard paper.
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Thanks for the replies.

As far as I have read, it seems normal for inkjets to print 1 mm out of the
margins on-screen, resulting in 1 mm photo loss at the up- and down-margin.

For now, I try to crop less resolute in photos, knowing the printer will
crop further :-(
 
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